News in Brief: Friday June 7

News in Brief: Friday June 7
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Garuda Indonesia has confirmed its will join SkyTeam alliance in March next year. The carrier will become SkyTeam's 20th member and second in Southeast Asia.

"Joining SkyTeam is a long term development strategy for Garuda Indonesia and for years we have been upgrading our service and actively forging cooperation with SkyTeam members airlines with this objective in mind," president and chief executive Emirsyah Satar.

Meanwhile, SkyTeam will open three more co-branded lounges with Istanbul being opened this month, Sydney before the end of 2013 and Beijing in early 2014.

 

The director general and chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, Tony Tyler, will address the National Aviation Press Club in Sydney on July 3.

 

Corporate Travel Management has launched new dedicated in-house technology named CTM SMART Technology.

The new tool specialises in developing customer-facing technologies engineered around a series of customer research initiatives.

 

Almost half of Australia's accommodation industry has reduced staffing levels as a direct result of increased labour costs in the current financial year, according to a new survey by the Accommodation Association of Australia.
 

 

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